Definition of Provinces

1. Noun. (plural of province) ¹

2. Noun. The part of a country outside of the capital, major cities, etc., and regarded as being rustic or parochial; a hinterland. ''See'' provincial. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Provinces

1. province [n] - See also: province

Lexicographical Neighbors of Provinces

providentially
providently
providentness
provider
providers
provides
providest
provideth
providing
providor
providore
providores
providors
province
provincehood
provinces
provincewide
provincial
provincial capital
provincialise
provincialised
provincialises
provincialising
provincialism
provincialisms
provincialist
provincialists
provincialities
provinciality
provincialize

Literary usage of Provinces

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Powers not specifically given to the provinces are reserved to the Dominion, ... The North America Act apportions representation to the several provinces on ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Success was on the side of the Catholics and the new provinces. ... Organization of the provinces was completed, and an edict granting provincial diets was ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Her willingness, in some cases, to allow the continuance of separate conditions of existence in particular provinces was simply and solely a matter of ..."

4. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"CHAPTER I GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LATER PROPRIETARY Provinces OUR review of the provinces which were founded by CHAP, trading companies at the ..."

5. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"The public and the private sacrifices in the provinces, which were not under the same regulations with those of the capital, continued to take place. ..."

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